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Report MediaWiki version in XHTML output
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Author: mwtoews

Description:
This is a simple feature request for MediaWiki to simply provide the version number as a comment, or another element of the XHTML markup. This will help provide users report the "Version" for bug reports, as well as many other tasks.


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Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:53 PM
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ayg wrote:

Version is already available at [[Special:Version]]. Not sure there's any reason to include it on every page.

mwtoews wrote:

The inclusion could be helpful for static and archival representations of Wiki-pages (not on a database), for example http://web.archive.org/web/20040209222712/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Here, I cannot tell the version number of MediaWiki responsible for rendering this page.